A Company Action

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December 16, 1961. A Company of the 36th Battalion of the Irish Defence Forces move to retake a strategic supply route into the town of Elizabethville in Congo. The battle of the tunnel followed with fierce fighting between A Company and a coalition of soldiers for hire and Katangese Gendarmerie. A Company Action is the definitive account of that battle which saw 14 members of the unit receive the Irish Defence Forces Distinguished Services Medal, two of them posthumously.In overcoming these enemiesthe opposing soldiers and peacekeepershad firstto
stay alivetofight beforethey could engage anyhuman enemy.For UN
peacekeepers belligerence wasthe enemy, its human form ominously manifest in
the many mercenaries in the pay of Tshombe. ... British, Rhodesian, South
African, someGermans, almost unavoidably one ortwoIrish), all soldiers of
fortuneand ex-militaryanbsp;...

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A Company Action

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Dan Harvey

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Maverick House - 2015-01-07

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